Trusten Polk

Trusten Polk (29 May 1811-16 April 1876) was Governor of Missouri (D) from 5 January to 27 February 1857, succeeding Sterling Price and preceding Hancock Lee Jackson, and Senator from Missouri from 4 March 1857 to 10 January 1862, succeeding Henry S. Geyer and preceding John B. Henderson.

Biography
Trusten Polk was born in Bridgeville, Delaware in 1811, and he worked as a lawyer before being elected Governor of Missouri as a Democratic Party member. Polk resigned the governorship to become a Senator just a month after being elected Governor, and Hancock Lee Johnson succeeded him as Governor. In 1862, he was expelled as governor for being a Confederate sympathizer, and he became a colonel in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. From 1864 to 1865, he served as a judge in the military courts of the Department of Mississippi, and he worked as a lawyer in St. Louis after the war.